COPD And Exercise - Moving Toward Your Best Life With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
 
Thirteen Reasons To Exercise When You Have COPD
- Minimize cardiac risk factors
- Decrease shortness of breath
- Improve bronchodilation
- Improve breathing pattern
- Improve exercise tolerance
- Improve muscle strength and endurance
- Decrease stress
- Decrease depression
- Decrease fear and anxiety
- Decrease medication side effects
- Decrease medical expenses
- Gain confienceÂ
- Improve quality of life
Thirteen Links To Get You Started On An Exercise Program
- NIH Senior Health- The Benefits of Exercise
- Starting An Exercise Program by Mary Burns
- Exercises for People With Breathing Problems
- COPD Exercise Precautions
- Essentials of Pulmonary Rehabilitation
A Do It Yourself Guide To Enjoying Life With Chronic Lung Disease
( booklets available for free download in either English or Spanish) - An Explanation of Pulmonary Rehabilitation from Healthline
- Weight training and COPD
- Strength Training
Growing Stronger is an exercise program based upon sound scientific research involving strengthening exercises-exercises that have been shown to increase the strength of your muscles, maintain the integrity of your bones, and improve your balance, coordination, and mobility. In addition, strength training can help reduce the signs and symptoms of many chronic diseases, including arthritis - Here’s How Weight Training Fights Osteoporosis-
Plus lots of other exercise links - The Back Owner’s Manual
- Exercise Helps Lung Patients Emotionally
- COPD Exercise and Activity Guide
- Dance Your Way to Healthier Lungs
Helen Sorenson, a registered respiratory therapist, gerontologist, and assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX, has another version of “dancing” she’d like to share with respiratory patients. Her DANCE program stands for “Disease Management, Activity, Nutrition, Contribution, and Environment,” and is filled with great advice on how to keep moving despite a chronic respiratory illness
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January 30, 2008
Posted in: COPD - Exercise, COPD - The Thursday Thirteen
2 Responses
Gandalf & Grayson - January 31, 2008
A very informative list. Happy TT13.
Sierra Skye - May 13, 2009
I read your blog in a regular manner, and I really like your way of writing
Please keep going, smile
your sierra
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